Drew Barrymore is serving up a fresh slice of real talk about her divorce from ex-husband Will Kopelman—and, spoiler alert, it’s not exactly the feel-good rom-com we all hoped for.
If you missed the memo, Drew, the 49-year-old Charlie’s Angels star and eternal bubbly queen of Hollywood, was married to Will, a 46-year-old art director and, presumably, art appreciator, for a brief but memorable stint from 2012 to 2016. (Yes, that’s four years of marriage—basically a Hollywood eternity!) They share two daughters, Olive, 12, and Frankie, 10, who they now co-parent like champs. Or at least like people who understand carpool logistics are more important than who got the good knives in the divorce.
On the January 24 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Drew got candid with guests Joy Behar and Susie Essman, confessing that, yeah, she’s still not fully over the breakup. And let’s be real, who really “gets over” the person they once loved enough to co-sign a joint Costco membership with?
“I think, for me, when I got divorced from my kids’ dad, I don’t think I’ve fully recovered from that in the sense of I just…” Drew began, trailing off like someone about to explain why they haven’t cleaned out their ex’s old drawer yet. “I was so invested in that plan.”
Susie Essman, the 69-year-old Curb Your Enthusiasm star and unofficial voice of reason, chimed in with a solid truth bomb: “When you have kids together, that really changes things.” (Translation: Kids are like the human equivalent of duct tape holding parents in each other’s orbit forever.)
Joy Behar, who’s 82 and clearly done with everyone’s nonsense, added her own nugget of wisdom: “Well, you never get rid of them, once you have a kid.” To which Drew nodded in agreement, likely reminiscing about the time Olive refused to eat anything but dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets for a month.
“We’re stuck together for life,” Drew quipped, acknowledging that she and Will have both “grown a lot through the last 14 years of our union with our kids.” Which is a classy way of saying, “We figured out how to text each other about soccer practice without throwing passive-aggressive emojis into the mix.”
Joy, who’s been there, done that, and got the alimony check to prove it, dropped a final pearl of wisdom: “I don’t recommend divorce—it’s really… it’s a drag.”
“Yeah, it destroyed me,” Drew admitted, before probably realizing she needed a commercial break and some soothing chamomile tea to bounce back.
Divorce is hard, co-parenting is harder, and Drew Barrymore is still the relatable queen of keeping it real while making us laugh through the tears.
